Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.